Welch v. State

The indictment in this case charges that on October 11, 1932, in Colquitt county, Georgia, E. C. James, alias Jimmy James, and Mote Welch robbed the Norman Banking Company, and that Dewey Welch was an accessory before the fact to the robbery. James pleaded guilty, and Mote Welch was tried and convicted. Dewey Welch was tried and convicted and given a penitentiary sentence. The question to be determined is whether or not the court erred in overruling Dewey Welch’s motion for a new trial.

Arnold Horne, sworn for the State, testified that at “ about eleven-twenty or eleven-thirty” on October 11,…